Display device for neckties.



( Appnmion med web. ze. 1900.)

is hereinafter 4o spring-steel -or 4 the former-said strips being bent or clenched DISPLAY DEVICE .Fos i carine SPECIFXGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,739. dated August 14;, 153ml.

(No model.)

Applicatililgdff'cbrnary 26, 1900. Serial No. 5,558.

To @ZZ/whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY RUNTZ, 4of Chicago, in the county of-Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedl certain new and Auseful Improvements in Display Devices for Neckties, of `which thefollowing isa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the aecompanyiner drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which corresponding let- 1o ters of reference in the cate like parts.v

The object of my invention is to provide a display-holder for neckties by which the latter may be held and retained in position to display them to the best advantagaeithenin a packing-box orupon a display-card for windoWsshoW-cases, and the like, all of which more lparticularly described, and definitely pointed out in the claim.

In thedravvings, Figure lis a perspective diderent figures indiview of a device' embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudi nal vertical sectional View of a portion thereof, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view 2 5 thereof.

Referring to the drawings, a represents a strip of sheet metal, preferably tin, of any desired length, usually about ten inches, in

which perforations are formed for the recep- 30 tion of fastening-staples b, by which said strip may be secured to a base or support c, Fig. l, of cardboard or other suitable material. The metal strip is provided with flanges d, beneath which is inserted a series of sheet- 35 metal slides e, having `.transverse slots or openings f therein for the reception of loops g,wliicl1 are formed,substantially in the in annerindicated, from strips or ribbons of thin elastic sheet metal-such, for example, as spring-brass, but preferably beneath the slides e in the manner substantially as shown in Fig. 2 in order .to hold the loops in place. The slides e are held in the 45 guideways with suicient frictional contact to enable them to be moved therein, thereby i enabling the distance between the loops to be adjusted as desired. The strips are arranged near to and parallel with the upper edgepf the card c, as shown in Fig. Il, and the loops g are so disposed that neclties h,

one of which is shcwnin Fig. l, maybe placed between thennthe placing of said ties therein causing the elastic loops to yield laterally to permit the ties 'to be inserted, said ties being retained inplace side by side as a result of the elastic pressure of the loops thereon.

It is obvious that the stri kis c; ina" be eitheri .i

fastened to a Vcard c or to the bottoni ci. a bei; and that the slides, being adjustable, as stated, may be moved laterally tc iit ties of dierent sizes and to display thein to 'the best advantage. The loops are` preferably made,

which may as stated, of very light spring-stesi ribben, be covered with paper or cloth of any desired, color or tint, and when a number of ties, nsn

ally six, are displayed therein they present a l the part a, with the loops cr holders, may be manufactured and sold to bon-manera and attached to the bones or cards by them. construction is cheap and offers advantages to merchants not attained, so far as l am aware, by any construction heretofore enrployed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and dcsireto secure by Letters Patent,v

'lhe combination in a necktiedisplay dcvice,of an elongated supporting-base or guide Way, a series of yielding resilient loops le cated Within said rnidewayg and laterally-ad-v `instable slides for supporting said loops in position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have' signed 'this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 24th day of February, 1900.

HENRY ltUN'iZ.

vWitnesses:

D. Il. FLn'rci-iaa, DWIGHT li. Uiianrnn.

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